A growing literature shows how insights from behavioral economics can be successfully adopted in simple interventions through SMS or other types of low-cost communications. In this short, note we provide concrete basic guidelines to design behaviorally informed messages, based on theory and our...

Diese Studie analysiert die aktuellen Entwicklungen von Verschwörungsmythen während der Corona-Pandemie. Die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Bedrohung liegt in einer weitergehenden Spaltung der Gesellschaft mit negativen Folgen auch für den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland. Wie sollte...

Diese Studie analysiert die aktuellen Entwicklungen von Verschwörungsmythen während der Corona-Pandemie. Die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Bedrohung liegt in einer weitergehenden Spaltung der Gesellschaft mit negativen Folgen auch für den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland. Wie sollte...

A growing literature shows how insights from behavioral economics can be successfully adopted in simple interventions through SMS or other types of low-cost communications. In this short, note we provide concrete basic guidelines to design behaviorally informed messages, based on theory and our...

A growing literature shows how insights from behavioral economics can be successfully adopted in simple interventions through SMS or other types of low-cost communications. In this short, note we provide concrete basic guidelines to design behaviorally informed messages, based on theory and our...

We estimate the relationship between international youth and professional tennis rankings. We find no difference between the predictiveness of rankings from age 14 & Under versus age 16 & Under competitions. The most persistent predictor of professional success is beating older top ranked...

The Republic of Croatia belongs to the circle of transitional countries that has undertaken major efforts at the build-out of the information system. The development of telecommunications has been given a great importance because they represent one of the essential basis for the economical...

Despite being a mainstay of modern economic theory, the simple concept of arbitrage is sorely misused. In this paper we overview such instances, and offer an alternative definition. Most applications of arbitrage use it as a general equilibrating tendency irrespective of whether the outcome is...

This paper analyzes stochastic productive pollution within a model of endogenous growth. The extent to which the agents perceive their individual influence on aggregate pollution is parameterized. Recursive preferences allow for the separation between intertemporal substitutability and risk...

This paper discusses a two–sector neoclassical overlapping generations economy with intermediate and final goods in the spirit of Romer (1990). The risk averse agents engage in one of two alternative occupations: either firm-ownership in the intermediate goods sector, characterized by...